just 1 more thing however, when i install additional extensions to firefox, acrobat refuse to work again... i have either opened too many tabs (8 might be on start up???) or i have installed too many exts?? surely, if i remove the .mozilla and start from the beginning acrobat will work.

I never could get version 7 working on my system. I tried everything here. Have masked version 7 and gone back to version 5.10 that works properly. Version 7 does not work correctly on my husband's windows xp system either. So I know it is not just a linux problem.

I installed Acrobat 7.0 rpm with KPackage. As it seem to be normal with gentoo and Kpackage, they do not work so easy together. Gentoo uses links to lib and Kpackage does not accept those, so the dependency check fails. Just install without dependency check.

Then you get the next error PPKlib.api fails. You can simply rename it to PPKlib.apidontdoit and it works fine. The real problem is that this api wants to have emerge openldap to be happy.

Don't kwow how to find this, except googling on the internet for PPKLite.api.

Has anyobody else experienced a massive slowdown in starting the newest version of Acrobat Reader 7? It's always been pretty slow (compared to xpdf and such) and used to take about 15-20 seconds to start. Now I'm up to:

Quote:

>time acroread
real 0m53.968s
user 0m46.167s
sys 0m0.720s

This is, as you might understand, painful to wait for. I've had problems with massive fragmentation on my ReiserFS disk, but repartitioned my HDD yesterday, changing parts of it to ext3 and did the copy/reformat/copy-routine on the ReiserFS disk. It solved other speed issues (like very long emerge --sync time) but this issue is still with me. Haven't seen any post about it on the forum. I know that Reader5 was pretty slow and right out ugly, but Reader7 has treated me better so far (until a month ago).
My packages are:

Quote:

* app-text/acroread-7.0.5-r1

I think it was the upgrade to 7.0.5 from 7.0.1 that caused it to slow down.. Anyone else experiencing this problem?_________________Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.

Yes, I have the same problem with acroread-7.0.5-r1.
There is some disk work at the beginnig, when I start it for the first time,
then I does something (process load at 100% ) for aprox. one minute.
And finaly it running without problem.
I've found on inet, that this version send info when you read some document.
It use HTTP and std. port 80, and I have HTTP acces just through proxy
so first time, I think there is the problem.
Is it possible in your case?

Other question: what do you know about defragentation of linux FS
(I'm on ext3)? As my portage operation are VERY slow. I have slow disk,
I know, but It seems to be worth as the time comes.
Some one said me that reiser is better for the lot of small files (i.e. for portage tree)
Do you think so too?